Week of Sept. 8-12, 2008

Week of Sept. 8-12, 2008

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Monday

PTA Tears & Cheers donuts and coffee for kinder parents/8:30 am & 12:30 pm

Tuesday

Team Meetings begin-consult Carson Events Google calendar to confirm your meeting time (am or pm)

Wednesday

Fair Day/students dismissed at 11:30 am

Thursday

Friday

Forza Friday at 7:30 am

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Fair Day

Reminder that Fair Day is a bit different than other Wednesdays. We do not serve lunches and students are dismissed at 1130 am. Please share this on your SWIFT sites and get the message out to our families.

Special Programs Services and Assessments

Resource, LAP, and ELL are in the process of assessing new students to the building/district. Assessments have been occuring already this week with Resource students. ELL will begin assessing tomorrow, Friday. Students are pulled individually and it will take 30-45 minutes dependent upon the student's skill level. Starting date services for these programs will vary in that services will begin when assessments are completed.

No Bullying Contracts

The contracts will be put in your boxes to be sent home next week. Please be sure that they are part of the weekly classroom meeting conversation and not simply sent home. We are looking for 100% return! By now you should have reviewed the School Rules Against Bullying poster with your class. Please review these at each class meeting! The goal is for all students to know these rules.

Lunch Helpers

Adele, our lead server, is looking for two intermediate students each lunch period who are interested in helping to serve lunches (pizza . The bonus is that they do get a free lunch and count that time towards the Super Achiever Program. Below are the guidelines using a fifth grade student as an example.

The student would start serving lunches at 11:30 (when the 5th grades go to lunch)

The student would serve for approx. 15-20 minutes.

When done serving they would then eat their lunch and go to recess

Students would understand that they are commiting to a week minimum. Teachers would determine which students are participating (based on academic effort, citizenship, and attendance). Please let Adele know if/when you will begin sending students to help.

Fire Inspection

Carson was inspected this week. We passed everything except one area. The Fire Marshall has informed us that we are not permitted to store any materials 'on top of' the cupboards. We a written warning and will be getting a surprise inspection within the next 30 days. Please take all of these items down, including 'plants and decorations'. Regarding the plants and decorations, we will get clarification at the next inspection as to whether or not they can be exceptions (hopefully it will be a inspector with a sense of decorating style). We got off easy with a warning. Please take care of this by Monday morning. If you have questions, please see Miles or Arturo.

Forza Friday

Join us for coffee at Forza's by the Super Walmart on the hill. Our new meeting days may require us to change the day to FORZA Mondays if there is a conflict.

A.R.
Today I discovered that one computer worked for AR but the other one kept running "trying to locate data." Here are the steps to relocate the data so your kids can take AR tests. Instruction for linking computer to A.R.
1) You must log in with teacher user name and password for this to work.
2) Go to A.R. Management
3) After you sign in select School
4) Select Data Location then select the line that says, find “existing data.”
5) Look for ARRApps on the server list (same place you look for xchange, groups, etc and

select)
6) Finish going through the steps by selecting next…and finish.
7) A serial number should be on the final screen which shows you have located the data for

ARRaps
8) You will have to restart for it to work.
9) Check it by trying to sign in under classroom/student ID to make sure it is hooked up.
If you are stuck and need help please ask!

Thank you!

What a fantastic start! Your hard work and consideration have made this year's kick-off our best ever! (I know this is only year 2, but it was amazing!) Please take some time to relax and reflect on a job well done. Next week will be exciting as we embark on the meat of the school year, and we will inform you of any adjustments to staff and students as soon as we have further information. Have a relaxing weekend!